It is my great pleasure to join you all here today. Secretary General Stoltenberg, thank you for your kind invitation, and more broadly for your dedicated leadership of NATO’s support and assistance for Afghanistan.

7 December 2016: H.E. Eklil Hakimi, Minister of Finance met with government officials today on 7th Dec 2016 in Continental Hotel. He informed them about achievements, implementation plan of post- Brussels Conference, Afghanistan National Development Framework and implementation mutual commitments.

It is my great pleasure to join you all here today. Secretary General Stoltenberg, thank you for your kind invitation, and more broadly for your dedicated leadership of NATO’s support and assistance for Afghanistan.

7 December 2016: H.E. Eklil Hakimi, Minister of Finance met with government officials today on 7th Dec 2016 in Continental Hotel. He informed them about achievements, implementation plan of post- Brussels Conference, Afghanistan National Development Framework and implementation mutual commitments.

At least 35 Taliban fighters including their three local commanders and two ISIS loyalists were killed, 27 were wounded and two others were arrested following joint military operations led by Afghan security forces within the last 24 hours in 13 provinces.

The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that the alliance will reconfirm strong commitment to Afghanistan during the alliance’s foreign ministerial in Brussels. “The ministerial will close with a meeting on Afghanistan and our Resolute Support mission.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Salahuddin Rabbani met this afternoon with the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

World Volunteers Day was marked, with a number of youth donating blood on the occasion, under the slogan of “Stay beside volunteers and identify their share at the society” in a meeting held by joint effort of the Youth Affairs Deputy of the Ministry of information and Culture here in Kabul said.

Chaired by President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, a meeting of the National Procurements Commission (NPC) approved 27 different contracts costing 8.8 billion and 184 thousand and six Afghanis, said a statement from his office the other day.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over the manuscript collection of Al Tawaif and Safiana al Zaraif which is a valuable, historical, scientific, literary and mystical work to the Ministry of Information and Culture.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved $120 million in grants for Afghanistan and discussed the 2017-2020 Country Partnership Framework (CPF) that sets out the institution’s plans for supporting the country in ending poverty.

Led by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the National Procurements Committee (NPC) has signed 11 contracts at the cost of 5 billion Afghanis, said a statement from his office quoted by Bakhar News Agency said the other day.